The scarlet tanager, a songbird native to Illinois, can eat as many as 2,100 gypsy-moth caterpillars in one hour.

Scientists say that babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.

During the Boston Tea Party, 342 chests of tea were thrown into the harbor.

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